microblog · @amina_lagos · civilian · 3 February 2026, 09:30
Watching Europe discover sanctions from the receiving end has been an education in tone.
For forty years we were told that restrictive measures are a neutral instrument of the rules-based order. Three weeks of being on the wrong side of a payment rail and suddenly the language is about sovereignty and coercion.
I am not enjoying this. I am simply noting that the vocabulary changed very fast.
Force the fence and start a war with three founding allies. Burn the weapons in place. Sit still and call it leverage. Or sign Rutte's page. Hegseth recommends sitting still.
Situation Room tonight. Four options for the vaults. 1. Shoot through the barricades and fly them out. Advised against — it means suppressing German and Dutch Patriots first, which is a war with three founding allies. 2. Command Disable. Burn the physics packa…